Contributor: Steve Swoyer
Stephen Swoyer is a technology writer with more than 16 years of experience. His writing has focused on business intelligence, data warehousing, and analytics for almost a decade. He’s particularly intrigued by the thorny people and process problems most BI and DW vendors almost never want to acknowledge, let alone talk about.
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All articles by Steve Swoyer
It's cheaper than ever to host data processing workloads on IBM's zSeries mainframes. Now Rocket Software is touting the hitherto unthinkable: data virtualization for big iron.
- By Steve Swoyer
- August 8, 2016
For self-service BI, spreadsheets are extremely useful, but there are much better, more user-friendly alternatives to Excel when it comes to self-service data prep.
- By Steve Swoyer
- August 5, 2016
A new survey basically confirms it: we're in the midst of a renaissance in which machine learning technologies are both widely available and increasingly easy to use.
- By Steve Swoyer
- August 4, 2016
To support IoT and Industrial IoT use cases, data integration must become both more automated and more explicitly analytical. In other words, it needs to be smarter.
- By Steve Swoyer
- August 1, 2016
According to the latest revenue reports, Amazon Web Services is a bona fide giant in data management and analytics, and it's poised to get even bigger.
- By Steve Swoyer
- July 29, 2016
Data scientist Denny Lee shares three must-have skills for data scientists and argues that being asked to do the impossible brings out the best in an analyst.
- By Steve Swoyer
- July 29, 2016